Tom Shaw (bishop)

Marvil Thomas Shaw ( born August 28, 1945 in Battle Creek, Michigan) is an American, Anglican Bishop of Massachusetts.

Life

After leaving school at Alma College Shaw studied Anglican theology at the General Theological Seminary in New York, where he achieved a Master of Divinity. Moreover, Shaw succeeded the Master of Arts in Theology at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. 1971 Shaw was ordained Anglican priest and then served as a curator at the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in Higham Ferrers, Northamptonshire. He then as deputy rector of St. James' Church in Milwaukee in 1972. Shaw then went to the Anglican Men's Society of the Order of St. John the Evangelist and began to write several theological books in the following years. Shaw was elected Bischofkoadjutor on 12 March 1994, followed by David Elliot Johnson in the Episcopate of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, when he died in January 1995. The episcopal ordination took place on September 24, 1994 by Edmond Lee Browning and David Elliot Johnson and Barbara Clementine Harris.

Works (selection)

• Conversations with Scripture and Each Other ( Rowman & Littlefield, 2007)